The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 CaptainFantastic on What Black People Should Do Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7388 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7388#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:49:15 +0000 CaptainFantastic http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7388 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7388/feed 0 oudemia on What Black People Should Do Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7381 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7381#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:19:52 +0000 oudemia http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7381 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7381/feed 0 oudemia on What Black People Should Do Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7379 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7379#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:14:30 +0000 oudemia http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7379 When she met Rick, Karen was living with Tom Allen, an OBGYN who in the early-1970s cofounded Pittsburgh's first abortion clinic. It was a somewhat unusual pairing. Allen was the doctor who delivered Karen. She began living with him while an undergraduate nursing student at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. She was in her early 20s, he was in his 60s. "When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I'd like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist," said Allen, an elderly but vibrant man, during a brief conversation on the porch of his Pittsburgh row home. "But I don't think there's a humanist bone in that man's body." From here.]]> When she met Rick, Karen was living with Tom Allen, an OBGYN who in the early-1970s cofounded Pittsburgh's first abortion clinic. It was a somewhat unusual pairing. Allen was the doctor who delivered Karen. She began living with him while an undergraduate nursing student at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. She was in her early 20s, he was in his 60s. "When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I'd like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist," said Allen, an elderly but vibrant man, during a brief conversation on the porch of his Pittsburgh row home. "But I don't think there's a humanist bone in that man's body." 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lot etc. on What Black People Should Do Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7315 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7315#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:55:48 +0000 formerly it takes a lot etc. http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7315 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7315/feed 0 ljnd on What Black People Should Do Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7308 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7308#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:34:46 +0000 ljnd http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7308 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7308/feed 0 RonMwangaguhunga on What Black People Should Do Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/what-black-people-should-do-now#comment-7307 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